Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-09

70 vote itself republic if it could be assured
hat the election could be made without blood
shed and that the ship of state would sail as
smoothly as that of our Union.
80
King Hun1bert and Queen Margaret of
Italy l saw at the palace ON the Quirinal in
Rome. The place of the Quirinal is a large
space upon which the palace faces and in the
center of this an Egyptian obelisk stands.
Standing beside this obeisk you have fine
view of Rome and you may see the dome of
st. Peters away off in the background. The
front of the palace has a portico and flags
were floating from its roof during the day l
visited it. A crowd of many thousands filed
the Piazza del Quirinal and the eyes of these
all faced the palace. Then a couple of royal
funkies came out upon this portico and TAX
ing great robe of purple plush they threw
it over its railing. The crowd cheered and
the king and queen and their little son stepped
out and bowed to them. King Humbert, a
tall blonde young man, with a full short brown
beard, said few words In italian and the
cheers burst forth as loudly as they did when
in this same city the Romans threw up their
hats to Caesar. The royal party then bowed
and went back to the palace, but the cheers
continued. They came forth again, and again
bowed to the multitude. Twice the royal
purple was ia ken from the balcony and four
times this royal party came out to bow.
King Humbert, however, is one of the best
Of his kind. He is brave, charitable and
good ruler, and he has the love of his people
perhaps as much as any living monarch.
The khedive Of Egypt is of about the same
age as Humbert and he does not look much
different from him either. visited Egypt
just before Arab Pasha broke out into revo-
luton, and l saw the khedive at Cairo He
was driving on the Shubra avenue, and his
turnout was couple of fine Arabian horses
with two gayly dressed outrunners in front of
him. The Shubra avenue leads from Cairo to
the village of Shubra on the Nile. 1t is lined
with sycamores and forms the "Rotten row"
Or Avenue de Boulogne of Cairo. Every
afternoon it is filled with carriages, and both
MohanlmedaIs and Christians drive upon it,
The scene is gay one, and the horses are
good. You see many slightly yelled ladies
from the harems of wealthy Mohammedans,
and many of these have wells so thin that you
can see the fair Caucasian or dark African
features shining out through them. Upon
the box in front of them they have a coach
man and black faced eunuch, and there is
often in the case of royalty runners who go
''-oN~NA W. NANe%'
fast almost as a horse, and in their gay cos
tune they add to the oriental scene. You see
camels and donkeys mixed up with carriages
and it was in such a throng that the khedive
drove by. He was dressed in European cos
tune, save that his black hair was covered with
red fez cap. He wore black frock coat
and white vest and trousers of gray ish hue.
His linen was spotless, and noted that his
bosom was decorated with diamond studs
lie is l well educated man and talks English
and, think, French. He has no bad habits,
and it was said that he was practically under
the control of the English government at the
time the war broke out. If this is so he must
be even more under them now, and if so, the
better for Egypt. visited number of his
palaces, and found Ill one telephone which
seemed no more out of place than a base
burner stove which l saw last summer in the
palace of the Dutch king William at Amste,-
dam. The khedive of Egypt gets $4,000
year salary. His father is paid s2OO, O00a year,
and more than 100000 go to other members
OF the family. Still Egypt has only about
one tenth OF the population of the United
States! Is 1t any wonder that its people are
overbuidQned with taxations
FRANK G. CARPENTER